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Bobby Klaus
Ultimate Mets Database popularity ranking: 319 of 1218 players
Klaus
Robert Francis Klaus
Born: December 27, 1937 at Spring Grove, Ill.
Throws: Right Bats: Right
Height: 6.02 Weight: 200

Bobby Klaus was the most popular Ultimate Mets Database daily lookup on October 15, 2012, May 18, 2019, September 22, 2023, and February 7, 2024.

2b 3b ss

First Mets game: July 30, 1964
Last Mets game: October 3, 1965

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Frank
I remember playing hookey on a freezing, raining Thursday in April to go to Shea. This had to be the most miserable weather I have ever watched a game in. The guy selling hot chocolate was making a bundle. This has to be either 64 or 65. Anyway....Klaus wins the game in the 10th (thank God) with a shot down the left field line, just above the orange line.

Alan
January 11, 2002
Frank, I was there that day too, in the boxes on the third base line. Bobby's Home Run hit the foul pole......it was cold day..I was 12 years old...I believe he had a brother Billy who played in the Yankees system.

Alan
January 11, 2002
Frank , it was 4/14/65 Mets beat Houston 7-6 10 innings, you know your comments made me remember that day

Bobster1985
March 21, 2003
Isn't the Internet wonderful? Totally obscure bit players like Bobby Klaus live on in cyberspace. My family lived in a two-family house in Flushing during the late '60's, and one of our neighbors said that Bobby once rented it too. It was cheap rent but I guess ballplayers didn't make much then. No way you'd catch a big leaguer living in a working class neighborhood like that today.

Chris
May 5, 2003
It's a long time ago, but, if I'm not mistaken, Sandy Becker mentioned Bobby's game-winning homer on his show that day. Sandy also commented that the Mets had a 2-game winning streak! One of my prevalent memories of Sandy Becker is his mention of Bobby Klaus on his show that day. Anyone back me up (please!!)??

rich edwards
May 6, 2003
Chris, it's very possible. I remember watching the game on tv. It was 4-15-65 (not 4-14) as some have said. Klaus' home run made Jim Bethke the winning pitcher. I think he was only 19 at the time. The Mets also made a weird triple play that day. Sandy Becker was great. My favorite was k lastima.

mets
May 29, 2003
Bobby Klaus' brother Billy Klaus played with the Red Sox. I think Billy was also traded from the Boston Braves to the New York Giants with Johnny Antonelli in the Bobby Thomson trade.

Jerry
April 13, 2005
Bobby Klaus was a ballplayer who will live on in the Hall of Good. He was very decent, and could hit, but like many good ballplayers, his best numbers were run up in the minors.

At Cincinnati, he would have been backup to Pete Rose, Leo Cardenas, Tony Perez, Deron Johnson, and Chico Ruiz, not to mention a developing Tommy Helms. At New York, he was in the company of Roy McMillan, Chuck Hiller, and Ron Hunt. Like many good ballplayers, you have to ask the question, would he have made it with another team?

I was overwhelmed when the expansion San Diego Padres picked him. But San Diego sent him away to the Pittsburgh Pirates system. Bobby's brother Billy was the starting shortstop for the Boston Red Sox before being traded to the Baltimore Orioles.

A namesake, Richard C. Klaus was an infielder during the 40's and 50's before becoming a manager. About him, I know very little.

Del Jakabosky
April 28, 2006
I remember watching Bobby play with the minor league Padres in 1967 and '68. He was a player coach and led the Padres to the PCL championship in old Westgate park in San Diego. I wanted to play second base just like him.

DBuyher
October 28, 2006
I knew Bob at U of I, where he was an excellent player who was a true student of the game. He loved baseball and there was no doubt he was going to play major league baseball somewhere. There was always a game of street ball going on behind the T dorm and he was always in the competition.

Robert
January 6, 2007
I lived in Manhasset until the age of 8. I moved to California in 1967 and became an Angel fan. My first team, however, was the Mets. I was enamored with Bobby Klaus. My dad was on a business trip to Chicago in around 1965 or 1966 and, lo and behold, he was staying at the same hotel as the Mets. He got ahold of Bobby Klaus and had him call me! I don't remember a lot, but I do remember being thrilled that I was talking to a real major leaguer. He was my first "favorite player." I've had a few since then, all Angels, but you never forget your first of anything. Thanks Bobby.

Gene Daly
October 6, 2010
Bobby was a class act who lived on my block in Flushing (41st Ave bet Murray Street and 154 Street) during the 1965 season. I was a 17 year old senior in high school at the time and met him in the Fall of 1965 after the baseball season was over. He was working in the off season for Rheingold beer and came home one afternoon and asked if he could join our touch football game we used to play in the street. The rest was history; he played all fall and winter with us until he was traded. He befriended me and even took me to a Jets football game vs Houston where I sat with Bob Murphy and Miss Rheingold.

Jim Eckert
January 21, 2011
Memories of Bobby in this forum open with his game winning homer in a cold April game, 4/15/65 - a 5-4 win over Houston. One comment that caught my attention was that the homer was said to have hit the foul pole.

I have strong memories of at least another of his four career Met homers hitting the pole. It actually glanced off the outside of the LF pole, quite near to where I was sitting. This was in another 5-4 Mets win 8/23/64, this time over the Cubs. It was a solo shot coming earlier in the game so it wasn't a walk- off winner. But the Mets swept two that day (1st game 2-1) with Ed Kranepool and Charlie Smith getting game winning walk-off singles (first game in 10th, second in 9th) in respective games. What a rare feat in a 53-109 season.

Bobby must have been in his major league glory that day with a 9 3 5 1 doubleheader to get his average then to an unKlaus-like .302.

Ralph
April 25, 2022
I remember him as the San Diego Padres 2nd baseman 66-68. Always a clutch player. I still picture him leaping to snap a line drive in the second game of a doubleheader vs. the Tulsa Oilers.








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